Hello, Adele’s first single in three years, broke records for Youtube views when it was released on October 23, being watched 27.7 million times in its first 24 hours on Vevo.

Five hundred million views later and there have been parodies involving everything from the Muppets to Mrs Doubtfire. Now, Dutch YouTuber Matthijs Vlot has edited clips from famous movies together to comprise the song about longing, loneliness and regret.

Keeping only the instrumental, Vlot has allowed Lord of the Rings dwarf Gimli, Anchorman's Ron Burgundy, Uma Thurman’s Poison Ivy and Pumba from The Lion King to stand in for the Skyfall singer’s vocal.

Sacha Baron Cohen's comic creation Ali G kicks the compilation off while licking someone’s finger. Joining him are the great and the good of Hollywood cinema from Clint Eastwood to Leonardo DiCaprio to Jim Carrey.

C-3PO greets with relief an AT-ST operated by an Ewok in The Return of the Jedi. Fellow Star Wars originals Alec Guinness and Mark Hamill express similar sentiments. “At least I can say that I’ve tried”, says a mixture of Roger Moore’s James Bond in Live and Let Die, Austin Powers villain Dr Evil and Arnold Schwarzenegger about Adele’s failed relationship. Christopher Reeve, Christian Bale, Danny Devito and dame Maggie Smith are all sorry for breaking the character in the song’s heart.

With a touch of self-referential wit, Homer Simpson ends the video – realising that the memory of the relationship “clearly doesn’t tear [Adele’s ex] apart” – in pieces, only to be put back together.